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I really do love all things Linux and Ubuntu is awesome,

It's just one little niggle I've ran into since using Ubuntu, and that is the admin/privilege service that comes along with Ubuntu, i fully understand the concepts and usage of root/admin users but still seem to find myself in sparse moments of frustration when transferring files to and from root.

More specifically a Permission Denied by the system when attempting to move a file from the /root/ folder to the desktop of my user regardless of using sudo.

i'm not fully certain yet which daemons are responsible for which jobs but i'm assuming that is the cause of restrictions between root and general users.

I would be most grateful if anybody knows a tweak or touch to help make it a touch more comfortable?

Fabby
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  • Comfortable in what sense ? Please be more specific as to what you would want to be tweaked. – George Udosen Dec 30 '16 at 05:51
  • when using a certain wireless packet capture program it saves the output to root directory by default, it seems only since i last logged on that i'm being denied permission when trying to transfer the file to the desktop regardless of using sudo, sudo su or sudo -i. i have managed to move it to the desktop but i was a bit heavy handed in doing so, i just can't see the reason why ubuntu is suddenly behaving differently, i was hoping somebody had an answer to relaxing the security in any way as to means of making it easier to flow about buisiness...cheers – Mr.Sam Dec 30 '16 at 06:04
  • Congrats! You're not new any more! Rep 8 user already! ;-) – Fabby Dec 30 '16 at 07:27
  • Could you please add a little more detail? What exactly did you do, what did you want to achieve and what happened instead? Did you encounter any warning or error messages? Please reproduce them in their entirety in your question. You can select, copy and paste terminal content and most dialogue messages in Ubuntu. (see How do I ask a good question?) – David Foerster Dec 30 '16 at 08:53

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Apparently you do not fully understand the concepts and usage of root/admin users: there is no daemon that does what you're describing: it's just built into the file system.

root has access to everything, an admin has access to admin things and a user has access to user things.

To allow a user to have access to a file owned by root, execute the following command (as root):

chown szUserName:szUserGroup szFileName

and your user will be able to read the root file.

Fabby
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    Thank you for your'e help, just when i think I've gotten the size of it another easier way around turns up : ) love it – Mr.Sam Dec 30 '16 at 07:35
  • ¯\(ツ)/¯ We've all been there! Read the manual page for chown and you'll know much more. @Mr.Sam – Fabby Dec 30 '16 at 07:37